Definition of "induct" [in•duct]

• To place ceremoniously or formally in an office or a position; install: a service to induct the new president of the university. (verb-transitive)
• To admit as a member; receive. (verb-transitive)
• To admit to military service: a draftee waiting to be inducted into the army. (verb-transitive)
• To introduce, as to new experience or knowledge; initiate: She was inducted into the ways of the legal profession. (verb-transitive)
• Physics To induce. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Video evidence of the event shows Keith looking sick to his stomach and cackling like a hyena at the absurdity of his mission, and doing it right in the heavily-bearded faces of the band he was to induct into this laughing stock of an embalming center."
• "I got to induct Frank R. Paul into the Hall of Fame last year, and it was a thrilling, incredible experience."
• "India wants to acquire the fighter jets to modernize its ageing fleet of MiG-21s--dating back to the 1960s--as Pakistan and China induct new planes."